scop

The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic legends and other tales to our Anglo-Saxon forefathers.

The "Scop" or Geeman's song, and others, exhibit similar instances of this confusion of personages and dates.

No; there was the way Wyman had responded perfectly under scop.

The reply is that the Old English scop may not have regarded it as a place-name.

In "Deor" we have another picture of the Saxon scop, or minstrel, not in glad wandering, but in manly sorrow.